Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:39:59 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 20:39:58 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3cac6799467a1ee9199cb8f5a1d17475"; logging-data="798573"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Os4fnRlP54iVMUYPIOxpX" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:aO2btB+BMF4ajFzAt7wqbkpRkxI= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2939 On 1/10/2025 6:15 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: > On 1/10/2025 8:09 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote: >> On 1/10/2025 1:43 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>> On 1/10/2025 10:23 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote: >>> ... >>>> I don't want to just see Ukraine get back its territory. >>>> >>>> I'd like to see the Russian Empire broken up, and simply >>>> unable to attack the West again. >>>> >>>> We're getting close: >>>> >>>> The Russian economy is getting mighty shaky, with 18% >>>> interest rates, and about 20% inflation. >>>> >>>> Russia is rapidly running out of war machines, and can't >>>> manufacture them at anything like the rate at which they're >>>> being destroyed. >>>> >>>> Similarly for manpower - he's having to bring in troops >>>> from North Korea, and Russian meat wave tactics run through >>>> men very, very quickly. >>>> >>>> It looks like he can keep it up for less than a year before >>>> things collapse. >>>> >>>> We need to keep the pressure up. >>>> >>>> pt >>> >>> Yeah, putting pressure on the guy who owns 14,000 canned sunshine >>> missiles is going to go well.  Not. >>> >> We have canned sunshine too and ours are much more likely to actually >> work. > > Got proof that our canned sunshine is going to work ?  The USA has not > tested a nuclear weapon since 1992. > > Russia is even worse, they last tested a nuclear weapon in 1990 > (actually Soviet Union). > Our military is much more competent and not so corrupt that officers sell critical parts and components on the black market and our enlisted are not permanently drunk. -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.